The bottom of the Model is growing.

With the spread of Zhou Ming-Duncan's thinking, the structure that represents the underground world of the city-state of Poland is gradually emerging in his mind, and these parts that appear in his cognition have now become the corresponding new parts of this "collection".

It was a rough, rocky disc that grew at a visible rate and covered the entire subsurface of the city-state of Purland, and then began to extend in more bizarre detail—centuries-old sedimentary layers, tiny spike-like growths, and ...... that twisted between the sedimentary layers Weird bulges.

It feels like the rough skin of some kind of echinoderm, or the ugly outer layer left behind by the erosion of rocks in strong acids.

Eventually, the growth process finally stopped.

At the bottom of the "model" representing the city-state of Purand, there is now an additional base shaped like a disc.

However, Zhou Ming frowned.

He could feel it...... The consciousness that spread in the city-state of Pland has not stopped, and continues to extend "below"!

In the darkness, in the cold, in the transcendent perception beyond the ordinary five senses and six senses, he felt that his spirit continued to penetrate and flow downward like mercury sinking into the soil, and he clearly felt that his "gaze" had crossed the thick cement, soil and rock, over some extremely dense but non-gold and non-stone "shell", and had sunk into the cold seawater, and then continued to go down, and continued to go down!

In the blink of an eye, he felt like he had sunk into a dark deep sea, past the 850-meter-thick base, and rapidly extending along some invisible but existing "pathway"!

And how much has it extended after that? A hundred meters? Two hundred meters?

Zhou Ming couldn't be sure, he only knew that his perception was still spreading downward, obviously out of the scope of the Puland city-state, and there was no longer a new structure on the "collection" in his hand, but his mind was still flowing along some invisible "medium"!

His first reaction was, of course, nervousness, and he subconsciously tried to control the tendency of his mind to "fall" towards the deep sea, but before he could react, this constant "fall" suddenly stopped.

It was as if he had suddenly hit some invisible "limit", or reached the end of the "medium", and his perception finally stayed in the deep water at some depth below the city-state, and stabilized in this position.

Zhou Ming felt his heart pounding, it was a sudden fall, but he was suddenly pulled by the rope in the middle of the fall, it took him nearly half a minute to calm down, and he controlled his breathing and heartbeat.

Then, after settling down, he slowly picked up the model of Plant in front of him, observing the thick layer of "rock" spreading out from under its base.

The structure is rough and ugly, but it is quite regular in general, and its bottom is a craggy fracture surface, giving the impression of ...... It's as if it was broken from somewhere, or it has been disturbed in the process of "generation" from the top down, leaving an ugly fracture.

And the internal structure of this disc is completely chaotic, difficult to perceive, difficult to peep.

But Zhou Ming's attention was not on the base of this disc, but at the air below the base.

A part of his "consciousness" that had been extended was now hovering in that position.

Zhou Ming closed his eyes slightly.

In the next second, the perception from afar was instantly strengthened.

He felt that he was in the dark and cold depths of the sea, the immeasurable sea water enveloped him in layers of pressure, this sense of oppression was so real that it seemed that even his consciousness was suppressed and constrained in some way, he tried to open his "eyes" in this darkness, but he could only see endless nothingness.

But gradually, there seemed to be some small glimmers of light in the void.

Is that some kind of plankton in the deep sea? Some kind of glowing fish? Or is it something else?

Zhou Ming struggled to identify it for a long time before he realized ...... That's the bottom of Prand.

He "looked up" at Poland and saw the base of the rough disc, which in the utter darkness had tiny glowing structures.

But I couldn't tell what it was...... The message that can be conveyed by pure consciousness perception, separated by such a long distance and thick seawater, is too vague.

Then Zhou Ming slowly adapted again, trying to turn his attention in another direction: the deeper part of the seabed.

He felt nothing but an endless emptiness, an endless darkness.

Deep Sea ...... It seems that there is nothing.

But after a while, he suddenly felt something faintly.

Something extremely massive, lifeless, perhaps as large as Prander, was sleeping in the endless darkness.

Zhou Ming couldn't see it, couldn't hear it, the extreme darkness and silence hid all the details of that huge existence, yet he could be sure that something existed there, dead and dormant, as if it had existed for eternity.

After an unknown time, Zhou Ming returned in vain.

In the end, he couldn't "see" what was in the deep sea directly below Plant.

But he was vaguely aware of one thing-

The huge structure hidden directly beneath the city-state is probably the reason why the Frost Queen Ray Nora insisted on advancing the Abyss Project half a century ago!

Below the frost, below the Plant, and below the other city-states...... I'm afraid there are!

Zhou Ming breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, picked up Poland's city-state model, and slowly came to the shelf at the end of the room.

The model now has an extra "base", but it still fits into the storage compartment on the shelf – as if there was plenty of space for the model and the lattice from the start.

But before putting the model in, Zhou Ming's gaze fell on the base again, and he couldn't help but have a trace of doubt in his heart.

His consciousness can spread in the city-state, however in the depths of the ocean, his own consciousness clearly extends beyond the physical boundaries of this city-state model...... Its base structure came to an abrupt halt after 850 meters, only to extend his consciousness another one or two hundred meters downwards after that...... How did the next one or two hundred meters extend? What is the invisible medium?

Zhou Ming slowly put the model back into the shelf.

……

Once again, the sun rose into the sky as usual.

In the small clearing in front of the antique shop in Lower Plande, Duncan watched Nina ride her bicycle around merrily, ride up and down the street, and finally stop safely in front of him.

"Uncle! I'm already very skilled! ”

Nina rested on one foot on the ground with an expression of excitement and pride on her face.

Duncan smiled slightly, "Yes, you're pretty good at riding—but you're on my feet." ”

Nina hurriedly looked down, and immediately moved the wheels away in a panic: "Ah! I'm sorry! ”

"It's okay." Duncan smiled and waved his hand, then breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at the street in the sun.

The city-state is business as usual.

The deep darkness and huge shadows under the sunlit streets seem to be something from another world, and they do not affect people's daily lives in the slightest.

But ever since he had completed his exploration of the "underneath" of Prand, he had always thought of the cold, dark depths of the sea, and the massive structures he perceived in the depths.

It kept him wandering.

He couldn't help but wonder if the Frost Queen half a century ago had been like this. Did she somehow snoop into the secrets of the deep sea...... Even, more than you can snoop yourself on?

"Uncle, are you distracted again?"

Nina's voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting Duncan's thoughts.

"Are you alright? Always wandering from the morning. ”

"I'm fine," Duncan quickly waved his hand, then glanced up at the end of the street, as if to change the subject, "but then again, Alice hasn't come back yet." ”

"She's not been gone long ago," Nina said casually, "and you don't have to worry so much, you just went to buy a newspaper, and you didn't have to travel through half the city, you shouldn't be able to lose it, right?" ”

"I can't be sure," Duncan sighed, "this is the first time she's ever gone out on her own, in the true sense of the word—though only at the newsstand down the street." ”

"I think it's okay," Nina said with certainty, "I rehearsed with her many times before I left, including how to explain what I wanted to buy, how to make change, and how to say thank you when I got it...... She's learned it all. ”

"Well, hopefully," Duncan sighed, "mainly because she would be beaten with a pan when she went to the galley to get a plate at the beginning of the ship." ”

Nina was stunned: "I don't think these two things can be generalized......"

As she spoke, Alice's figure appeared in the field of vision of the uncle and nephew.

Miss Doll was holding a newspaper in her arms, with a big smile on her face, and was trotting all the way to this side with her neck straight, shouting as she ran, "Mr. Duncan!" The newspaper is back! ”

Nina laughed, "Look, I'll just say Miss Alice must be fine!" ”

Duncan was shocked when he saw Alice running over, and shouted a warning as he rushed up to meet him: "Don't run!" Slow down! ”

What are you afraid of, just like that, he watched Alice fall headlong less than five meters in front of him, and fell to the ground.

However, in the next second, the doll crawled up like no one, patted its skirt, picked up the newspaper that fell on the ground, and came to Duncan with a smile: "Newspaper! ”

Duncan didn't take the newspaper for the first time, but looked at the puppet lady with an incredulous face, and only after a while did he hold back a sentence: "...... Falling like this, why didn't the head fall off? ”

Alice continued to maintain that confident posture with her neck straight, with a big smile on her face: "I've found a good way to reinforce!" ”

Duncan looked at the puppet suspiciously: "Good way? ”

Alice: "I smeared the glue!" ”

Duncan: "......?!" ”

After being stunned for two or three seconds, he couldn't help but ask, "Who taught you?" ”

"Shirley!"

(Because of the Day of Silence, we moved tomorrow's update to today.) ）

(End of chapter)